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Poland will ban the sale of popular e-cigarettes to minors and their use in public spaces under a law that comes into effect on Thursday. Adopted by parliament in July, the new measures put e-cigarettes on a par with their traditional tobacco-based coun

Slightly ambivalent about the conference theme, I went to speak at the Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw in June – and had my eyes firmly opened. I got chatting to two people, both of whom were vaping. Eric, now in his late 60s, explained that he was a

Tobacco companies, like all corporations, have a fiduciary duty to maximise profits to shareholders. For that reason, they use all legal or quasi-legal means to prevent, delay or change policies that could potentially harm their profits, even if those po

The July 15 coup attempt forced Erdogan to give a break in his campaign, but he was back in form in less than two weeks....Erdogan’s activism crossed borders, reaching all the way to Warsaw, where he was attending the NATO summit. Caught red-handed and t

th Malaysia expected to table it’s vape laws soon, Sunday Star headed to Warsaw, Poland, for the recent Global Forum on Nicotine 2016, to see what’s happening globally....We spoke to industry reps and NGOs at the Global Forum on Nicotine 2016 held in War

What I learnt from my two days at the conference was both fascinating and appalling.... The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids is one of the biggest voices against vaping. They were created by the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation...it almost feels like a proxy

With delegates from 55 countries, they reflected the breadth of engagement in this smoking (or should I say vaping) hot topic: clinical and academic researchers, doctors, policy analysts, vaping manufacturers and consumer advocates. And there in the room

Poland mulls taxing e-cigarettes as part of a broader set of regulations for the tobacco industry, deputy Finance Minister Wieslaw Jasinski told the daily Rzeczpospolita. The Polish market of e-cigarettes is estimated at around PLN 450 million, while t

The 3rd Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) was held June 17 & 18 17 in Warsaw... Given the rising number of smokers in Africa and the very limited number of safe alternatives, African delegates to the Forum believed that it is time to raise the debate on the

the 3rd Global Forum on Nicotine, the conference proper started with the Michael Russell Oration, presented by Marewa Glover... While there is low overall smoking prevalence, there is large disparity in sub-population groups A point made early in the pres